Mmm... I first saw blade runner about 15 - 20 years ago. I can remember being absorbed in that world for a while. Very ambient.

i love a couple of scenes
actually

THREE
scenes

guess which ones they were
what were YOUR favorite scenes?

i liked all the fog and color and windows and swirling aura of chinatown in that futuristic world especially

i could almost SMELL the smoke whorling out of certain stalls

pretty nifty

Hey Pakd
i liked the Into the Wild book better than the movie

the movie irked me

for some reason

don't know why

I watched "Into the Wild" last night. I loved it. I wonder why it "irked" you LaV. Was it the directing?

I had read something on his story years ago. It always stuck with me.

On the previews before "Into the Wild" I saw "Kite Runner" was made into a movie. I loved the book. It was very visual. I already started to enjoy seeing that world come to life in the preview. I think I will really enjoy the movie.

We stared "East of Eden." It is really good too. I love John Steinbeck.

I just watched "The Long Walk Home" with Whoopi Goldberg
and Sissy Spacek. Both gave Powerful performances. The movie was moving,
to say the least, with a Lesson for all of us....WY

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just read the secret life of bees, what a terrific novel! we'll see if the movie is as good.

i know as a girl i'm not Supposed to like the shawshank redemption but i keep thinking about it and now i'm gonna have to watch it again to make sure. i remember it being so good, sneaky plot, awesome characters, deviousness. i love movies with a good twist at the end. and any movie with a quote like this deserves to be liked by all
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"

has anyone seen like water for chocolate? excellent book and screen play (written by the same person so very true to eachother for a change).



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I liked "The Secret Life of Bees." I read the book and then saw the movie about a year after. From what I remembered the movie was right on, except Dakota Fanning did not look like the girl described in the book. She did a good job though. Queen Latifa (SP?) was exactly like I pictured her character. and all the others too. Alicia Keys was perfect, IMO.

Hope you enjoy it coco!!!

i didn't see the secret life of bees
is it life transforming?

No, LaV, It is just a sweet, coming of age in a cruel world story.

bees do have secret lives

white noise for certain reasons and because it is a good movie and also cold mountain because it was so poignant and many others just cant think of their names, of man push cart was good as well but not recent

Cold Mountain has stuck with me. I think about it a lot. I think about that goat woman. All the strong women in that movie really made me proud to be a woman.

I love "When Harry Met Sally." We were watching it last night. I laugh and laugh at Rob Reiner films. I love that one especially.

i ordered cold mountain from the library. and thanks for things we lost in the fire, whoever mentioned that one. it's taking me days to watch it though, so far it's been 3 i think. it's so emotionally heavy, i have to keep stopping it!

I saw Blacula and Scream Blacula Scream over the weekend. I enjoyed them as much as I did when I first saw them in the early 70s.
Ha...after seeing a vampire movie I would come home and dive under the covers(being 9-10yrs at the time)and re-emerged only until after daylight came. I didn't care how hot it was, and boy it is hot in Guyana. And no AC.
I used to feel immense relief when the @#$%& would crow because as everyone knows a vampire has to go back to its coffin when @#$%& crow. Lol.
Vampire movies remain my all time favorite movies.

has anyone seen blindness? holy crap, freaky trauma. it's was very good and entirely disturbing. a must see i think. about the break down in civilization when faced with a real epidemic, though that is a much too simplistic evaluation. see it, tell me what you think.

I saw Lightform's recommendation "Resurrecting the Champ" and found it to be very good albeit a bit sappy at the end.

I have always like this movie since when I saw it in the 80s,Dreamscape with Dennis Quaid. I just saw it again,well,for the 100 time.It is one of my favorites.
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coco Wrote:
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> i know as a girl i'm not Supposed to like the
> shawshank redemption but i keep thinking about it
> and now i'm gonna have to watch it again to make
> sure.
I was the one who called "Shawshank Redemption" a guys
movie. I took some flack about that. I like the way Andy's mind
worked during the movie, not fully revealed until the end. Women
(most anyway) don't think that way. It was a very Strong movie
for me. Please tell us what you think after seeing it again....WY

The kids and I just finished reading THE SECRET GARDEN and then watched the movie. There were so many differences I felt would have been better if left like the book. We all liked the movie very much any way and the book...well we loved it!!!!

yesterday my husband and I watched "Gran Torino" with Clint Eastwood. Such a beautiful,funny,sad,everything,just amazing movie.

Cy, i loved Gran Torino.

Clint Eastwood has always been a favorite of mine....acting,
and directing. Didn't see 'Gran Torino', but 'Pale Rider' was good...WY

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hey coco

I didn't see the movie "Blindness" but I read the book by Saramago. I know it won a nobel prize and all but I couldn't stomach the contents. Don't ask me why I finished reading it. It left me feeling writhing and wishing I hadn't read it. The only apocalyptic movie I liked was "Children of Men" only because it had two moments of great beauty in the midst of a total wasteland of armageddon scape. I didn't read the book though. Someone said the book for Children of Men had a different name than the film itself. Anyone know? Anyone read it? Any comments?

coco

Cold Mountain is very well written. The author is gifted and I'm still enjoying savoring the reading of it. Very sparse but perfect language. It is a rarity. The movie was a bit sappy... nothing at all like the book which is truly a gem and far more imploring.

cy

Dreamscape looks really interesting. Just read the synopsis. I am gonna see if I can rent it. Thanks a bunch for the recommendation!

Can't say I've seen any great movies lately. Actually, the only one I saw in a great heaping while is the documentary " Man on a Wire" but believe it or not ,the Special Features for that movie is far more astonishing. i really loved what he had to say about being an artist and a poet. He said that he is not a tight rope walker but an artist who uses the canvas as the sky. He has an incredible and passionate spirit that cannot help but to be respected.

I liked George Clooney in "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
He's a good singer too as one of the Soggy Bottom Boys....WY

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WY,

I am very sorry to tell you that that isn't actually George Clooney singing in that movie, though he does a wonderful job mimicking : ( I love that movie, btw; to me it's like a weird and funny counterpoint to "Paper Moon." With a dash of "Raising Arizona" tossed in.

oh brother where art thou is one of my all time fave movies

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

Tamukha Wrote:
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> WY,
>
> I am very sorry to tell you that that isn't
> actually George Clooney singing in that movie,
> though he does a wonderful job mimicking : (
Oh Damn!!!....now you go and spoil it for me. LOL.
I guess it's better to know the Truth, and be disillusioned, rather
than not know, and live in a State-of-Delusion.
I've been watching clips of Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix in
"Walk the Line", and they did all their own singing....and Very Well I
might add. So when I heard Clooney (and group) singing, I just
assumed he (they) did too....WY

WY,

I know, I know, it's a darn shame, but "Oh Brother Where Art Thou? " is still a fabulous movie, with George Clooney's performance being one of the best in his career, in my opinion.

I liked "Walk the Line," and hope that that super-talented Joaquin Phoenix comes back from kookyland soon and resumes making good films : )



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Christmas Cottage.
About the life of artist Thomas Kincaid.

Vinny

"Oh brother Where Art Thou" is a fav of mine too. We have the movie and the soundtrack. The kids love the soundtrack.

WY, I think Gran Torino is Eastwood's best movie yet. I would like to know what you think after you see it.

I just saw Happy Accidents. [www.playingforchange.com]
If you see it,please tell me what did you think about it. I think that EVERYTHING is possible in this Universe.

And also Communion,
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